New Neutral Minion - Peon

If you are going to generate random cards, random spells is probably the best way to go. Class cards are generally more powerful than neutral cards, and spells are more likely to have an instant effect making random spells easier to utilize. Whether this card is played or not really just depends on how easy it is to trigger frenzy.

I thought Dean said they were doing less card generation in one of his Q&As? Regardless.... Something me doing? 

It looks decent, but its probably still arena fodder. No one would include a 2 mana 2/3 that only sometimes have an effect.

Too bad frenzy doesn't trigger more than once, otherwise this would be a legit threat. Oh well.

Decent but nothing more.

nah thanks I'll just play Wandmaker

Okay i love this kinda card. It generates something random, but you gotta work for it instead of getting it immediatly. Also it gives a random spell from your class, so it's ACTUALLY random. As someone who loves GENUINE random i love this kinda card, because it can actually give bad cards instead of the "fixed random" we saw last few HS years where "random" is almost always good.

Fun flavorful card. Probably best in arena were generating cards outside your deck is stronger. 

Still we'll see what spells end up in standard. Could prove useful in warrior or with the Augmerchants.

Mostly just a fun call back. Zugzug!

Doesn't sound super great. It could be a spell of any cost, so you might not even be able to play it for several turns. You should be able to get 2 spells from it with Shadowstep. If we still have Shadowstep.

Just meh card. 

Can see play at arena, but not in constructed.

Peon looks miserable when compared to a card like Wandmaker as the latter's spell generation is self-contained and more consistent with the limited pool of spells to draw from. Having to spend resources in addition to Peon only to get one random spell feels awful. Even Mage with their ping doesn't save Peon from pack filler status.

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I thought Dean said they were doing less card generation in one of his Q&As? Regardless.... Something me doing? 

Less =/= None.

They can do less and still have card generation.

Like instead of say 20 card sin expac being card geenration there  are only 5. 

He never said they would STOP doing, just less.

As long as you can Animated Broomstick this, it's great

I can see this being in Trolden vids for the perfect answer out of the blue :)

Scrolls. 

Very weak. If this gets forced into a 1 for 1 trade it may as well have been a vanilla 2/3.

I think this is a good card in any aggro deck that needs to clear boards with minions, generating a random spell is always good in most classes

I hope Frenzy triggers if the minion gets one-shot... 

This isn't terrible, but it will played more in arena, other cards that haven't been released might change this.

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I hope Frenzy triggers if the minion gets one-shot... 

To activate Frenzy the minion must survive damage.  Cards like this and the Hunter raptor card could be great, but yeah... if you don't draw them early then you have much less chance to activate the effect because your opponent may have a spell or minion to kill it straight up and deny the effect

Random spells aren't usually all that great.  At least it's from your class.

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I hope Frenzy triggers if the minion gets one-shot... 

To activate Frenzy the minion must survive damage.  Cards like this and the Hunter raptor card could be great, but yeah... if you don't draw them early then you have much less chance to activate the effect because your opponent may have a spell or minion to kill it straight up and deny the effect

oof

I feel like Wandmaker is just better

What’s the flavor here? Why a spell from your class?

It's good if you can trigger the Frenzy reliably without having to ping your own minion. I think Wild has more consistent 2-drops, though, including minions you would rather play alongside Animated Broomstick. I think people will experiment with this one, but I don't think it will stick around in the Wild meta.

Not as reliable as Wandmaker

Strictly worse than Wandmaker

more random card generation is good

Not much - just arena card

What we really need is for Blizzard to replace the Innkeeper's "Job's done" voice line with the peon's "Job's done" voice line.

can be useful

Will definitely see play due to V-A-L-U-E. Job's done!

Good in arena.

Good early minion.

He's such a cutie but got no backbone :D
Not gonna see play but for the memes.

Fun card, and a little neutral value generation doesn't do harm. Will never see constructed play unfortunately!

Interesting for the value generation, but too vanilla to be a great card.

this card looks ok ,but for now i cant see this being played that much yet maybe in the next year ,but for arena it is great.

Fits the expansion theme very well, but in the end this is just worse than Manafeeder Panthara unfortunately..

Gotta have to play this legendary card day 1! Job's Done! 

"What you want?"

A better card.

Filler of a filler... but okay, job's done :D

Meh meh

Giving me Wandmaker vibes, but a bit worse.

Much nostalgia as Peon finally becomes a card! Too bad it's just a worse Wandmaker. Frenzy is awkward at 3 health unless you're able to trigger it on the same turn.

It seems like Peon is probably outclassed by Wandmaker. In the early game you have decent odds of triggering this frenzy, but it will be hard to do later, and in the early game you'd almost always prefer getting a random 1-drop spell over a random spell because you can utilize it sooner. But, with so many cards rotating, maybe the pool of random spells will be really good for one or more classes, and maybe the pool of great 1-drop spells will decrease, helping Peon to edge out Wandmaker.

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I hope Frenzy triggers if the minion gets one-shot... 

Nope. The definition of Frenzy is "the first time the minion survives damage."

Pretty weak. Its juste a 2/3 (normal stats) that may do nothing and that may give a card that may be useful... Too much randomness to be played

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I hope Frenzy triggers if the minion gets one-shot... 

Nope. The definition of Frenzy is "the first time this minion survives damage."

It's a River Crocolisk, plain and simple. It's definitely not worth wasting a broomstick on.

Reminds me of the original warcraft. workhorse card, probably playable but unspectacular.

I guess the biggest question is: what is better, this card's ability or River Crocolisk's beast tag?

Sadly, this also feels like pack filler. 3 damage is easy to deal at once, and the pay-off isn't enough to put it in your deck for. Just play Wandmaker.

I can imagine a Trolden clip that a player messes up the trade and gives the opponent a powerful spell. Other than that, a usual common card that introduces a new mechanic.

Everyone is comparing this to wandmaker but I think that this card will be run along side wandmaker as opposed to against it. Both generate cards for cheap with a body, so I expect to see both in a tempo deck.

bring back memoriest

...would be better with battlecry instead frenzy

Too random to see play.

For what I understand, the minion has to survive for the effect to trigger, so yeah, not so good.

I'm sure a river crocolisk that gives you a spell will see play. 

Even if not in constructed, will be good in arena

Good spell generator

I think the 3 health threshold is to easy to remove, so unless you're damaging this yourself the turn you play it, it's not generating much value.

I feel this will mainly be played with Rogue, Mage and Priest since random spell generation seems to be popular with these classes at the moment.

If the opponent can't oneshot it, then it's worth it.

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 Something me doing? 

Work work

It is a decent early game minion. Ok stats for the cost and will sometimes give you value from either a favorable trade or a decent spell generation.

I mean, glad to see the Peon here. Not so glad about the card itself; it seems more like a solid arena card. 

it's ok. I can see it in a buff type class to get a lot of value off of it.

They made peon weak. Sad. I loved this from Warcraft so much.

Why play this over wandmaker?

I think this will be a solid 2/3 body 2-drop.

No, because minion has to survive to trigger frenzy.

More often than not you will probably be getting a spell that doesn't function well with your deck. It would be better if it discovered a spell instead.

wont see play in standard or wild. good 2 drop in arena tho

arena only card

flavor is awesome. but I would pick wandmaker over this, since this is not guaranteed.

work work

Wonder if this would help a token deck?

Tbh not too optimistic for this it seems unlikely to trigger its effect unless it gets a rush trigger... But wandmaker seems better given its predictability, and in spite of the rotation there still are not so useful spells around for each class

Man really appreciating your insights on these cards. I find myself agreeing with most of your analysis. This one included. Yes the ease of activating frenzy is the key. The frenzy cards paired with rush are the ones I see being played most often.

seems like a decent 2 drop for tempo decks

Will definitely see a lot of play

As mainly an arena player, would probably draft this without thinking twice

Seems like it might be run in decks like highlander hunter or maybe aggro decks aswell

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Too random to see play.

It's definitely not too random to see play. If Peon read "Battlecry: Add a random spell from your class to your hand" it would be very playable in value-oriented decks. The fact that he has to survive damage to get the spell is the real challenge here.

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I'm sure a river crocolisk that gives you a spell will see play. 

Even if not in constructed, will be good in arena

Too bad this is just a River Crocolisk that never gives you a spell unless you sink additional resources into it.

And Peon isn't even a Beast, so River Croc is actually better in many cases.

Random spell is not what I want from any card. It's still too.... random? Maybe a little better when it could be 3-mana cost random spell? Or sth like this.

Also - Job's done!

I hope it will have  original voice from WoW)

always nice to get a spell, but random could be.... 

Filler zug. Won't do much more than zug zug (die).

Flavorful: a competent minion (he has access to all the spells!) but he will only work if violence is used. Yay.

This is a surprisingly good early-game card. Although it's always better to draw from your own deck, random spells are hardly ever unwelcome. Combined with a 2/3 body for (2)... Yeah, this'll see play, in a deck or two of mine at the very least :P

Difficult to include in a deck, random card not guaranteed. Arena card

No point playing it in constructed, good in Arena. The art and the effects are a bit strange. Peon and scrolls? Hm, don't get it.

Great for priest and shaman

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Seems like it might be run in decks like highlander hunter or maybe aggro decks aswell

This could be true if there were still going to be Highlander payoff cards in the Standard format. Today, all of those cards in standard come from Saviors of Uldum and Descent of Dragons, both of which will be rotating out, making Highlander styles of play way less attractive. There's still plenty of highlander in Wild, but Peon almost certainly gets outclassed in the Wild format.

(Technically it's possible that Highlander cards could come back in another set this year, but I think Team 5 has said they like to only do those once every couple of years to keep them from being omnipresent in the meta.)

Its got that crocolisk statline with an upside,, pretty gud

something need doing?

Zog Zog! Oh damn that brings back memories... The card itself is meh, needs a reliable activator, and even then not all that good.

Never seen a Peon as much of a Spellslinger

ZugZug

It is an okay card. Maybe it will find a home in Rogue.

I cant wait to hear the voice lines

Work, work, work! The good'ol peon is back!

Arena 2-cost drop

I would like this card so much more if it was a 1-cost minion, so it can be first thing you play in the game (like in wc3). And the effect for example, 1/ body, at the end of your turn, add a Coin to your hand (mining gold so you can kickstart your gameplan). Frenzy and scrolls just feel strange to go with peons.

Sorry for this late night random thought, just felt like sharing it somewhere to get it off my mind. 

Ok stats, but random and delayed effect... This is no Wandmaker. Won't see play in meta decks.

Frenzy isn't that easy to trigger w/o proper set up or Rush. This is in contest with Wandmaker and I think this loses every time :/

OK card, but how often will Frenzy be able to be triggered?  If it is reduced do a 2 mana 2/3, then it isn't great.  

Seems fun but not too exiting

Pretty average, at best. I don't think Zug Zug will carry anyone to victory.

Zug Zug. Seems bad. 

I think it's too inconsistent to run in your deck, but it's a fine card

classica card of warcraft

Decent for Arena, but not good enough for ranked

a better wandmaker

A worse Wandmaker as it misses Rush

Terrible Card

Good as an early play but loses all value beyond turn 4

I hope the voice lines are lifted straight from Warcraft II.

It's okay, given it's just a peon.

Decent card, but i don't think it's enough for competitive play. Wandmaker is way better and Peon must survive to give just a random spell (not discovered)

Solid card for alternative game modes like duels or arena. 

Dificult to use correct

It's alright but probably will ever see play in arena.

Job's done.

Mwah

It's ok i guess

I'd be reasonably happy to pick this in Arena every now and then. That's about it.

4 stars.

"Job's done!"

way worse vulpera scoundrel

what u gonna expect from a card named peon?

Looks quite good, but not in standard, too random

Yeah, this is no good. A shame really, because the voicelines are probably nostalgic :(

good card

Too slow, too boring

If it gave a 3 cost spell, that would be great

Peon peon, peon peon peon.

*star wars fight intensifies*

Discover would be nicer. Random spell can be a crapshoot. 

Work work ?

good

It's decent, but probably not what I want from a 2-Drop in Constructed. I don't think this will be in any decks in the coming years.

It does not 

Good stats and a nice effect, but nothing gamebreaking. More of an Arena card than anything

I don't think small Frenzy minions will work at all. On top of that this effect doesnt really worth trying to get to work.

i like wandmaker more, maybe when wandmaker cycles

Ok card, nothing special.. very handy for arena

Worse Wandmaker, seems bad.

not quite good. there are better ways to generate spells

Seems like a good early-gam arena card.

Too slow and unreliable, would have been cooler if he synergized with the watch posts.

The peon from wc3 finally gets a card.

Seems kind of bad, honestly. Too wide a pool to pull from, and you might not even get the effect every time.

"Created by" value

I wonder what his voiceline would be